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I recently received quite a lot of love because of Globalite. Even though I tried to write some documentation about the plugin, I know that there’s not much. I also know that there’s a difference between showing how to set a locale and how to actually use that code in a real application.

To fill this gap I wrote a very simple and rough Rails sample application with a fully localized User Interface:

Looking at the code you will find out how to:

use a different css per locale (language/country)

use a different picture per locale

set a default css/picture if the translator doesn’t specify one

UI localization

rails core localization examples

create a select box of available UI translations

get/set the locale only a specific user so other users start by seeing the default translation

use a translation with many dynamic arguments

nested translation

note: I froze Edge for this sample app (it wasn’t required, Globalite works well with older version of Rails).

Today I updated Globalite, refactoring the code and fixing some issues.

I added a bunch of aliases since I was tired of typing:

Globalite.current_language = :fr

I shortened it to

Globalite.language = :fr

But the old method is still available so it won’t break your code

The major change with this update is a better support for locales. Let’s say that in our application we setup the language to :fr (French) but we didn’t specify a country. Remember that Globalite lets you have specific translations/localizations per country so you can display dates, prices properly.

Previously, if my locale was set to :fr-* then Globalite would try to load the fr.yml files and not fr-FR.yml.

If you decided to use a fr.yml file for your UI localization, you might have noticed that all the Rails core messages weren’t translated(now you know why). This update deals with this issue and if a translation isn’t found in your locale, it will look for translations in your language but from a different country and pick a random one.

I’m expecting Rails core translations in Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Feel free to email me your own file and let me know on what project you used Globalite.